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21 Nov 2008: | Symposium highlights state's role in developing LED technology - Mlive.com- everything Michigan |
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| Why Dell can't keep up with HP (Nov 20) - Forbes |
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| Apple developing always-on backlight for iPhone (Nov 20) - Wired |
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| 2009 Intel Developer Forum dates announced (Nov 20) - Company release |
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| AMD's 45nm Phenom II chips overclocked to 6+GHz (Nov 20) - ChannelWebnetwork |
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| Handset makers woo China Mobile (Nov 20) - Fierce Wireless |
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| HP unveils tablet PC with multi-touch screen (Nov 20) - Daily Tech |
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| Vizio continues patent battle with Funai - Twice |
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| Sharp may cut temporary workers at factories on slowing demand - Bloomberg |
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| Was Samsung the star witness in LCD price fixing probe? (Sep 11) - Law.com A law.com article (registration required) cites lawyers as saying that the US government bestowed amnesty on Samsung in the LCD probe.
In the unique world of criminal antitrust law, the first company to step up and admit a conspiracy receives a pass from prosecution. |
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| What are the hot markets in IC downturn? (Nov 19) - EE Times ...Strong revenue growth in October confirmed the US game industry is weathering the macroeconomic turmoil very well...
..Besides gaming, LEDs are hot. For example, LED lighting is projected to be a US$400 million market in 2008... |
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| Amid PC hits, analysts say Dell is a 'Sell' - Wall Street Journal ...Analysts shadowing Dell have been busy this week cutting estimates and reducing the target price on the company's already-battered shares. Raymond James Associates once pegged earnings for 2010 at US$1.75 a share. That is now down to US$1.23, which is below the US$1.30 the firm thinks Dell will earn in 2009, which is below what the firm thinks Dell will earn for 2008. |
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| NY development agency delays vote on AMD plant (Nov 20) - Bizjournals.com The board of directors of the Empire State Development had been scheduled to vote on whether to transfer a US$1.2 billion package of state incentives from Sunnyvale-based AMD to The Foundry Co., a joint venture between AMD and UAE-based Advanced Technology Investment.
Instead, that vote has been postponed until a December meeting, according to AMD and state officials. However, Travis Bullard, a spokesman for AMD, said the decision to push off a vote until the board・s December meeting does not delay the plant. |
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| Foxconn rumored to buy Pegatron (Nov 20) - The Inquirer More rumors are afoot that Foxconn is looking to snap up Pegatron, the OEM arm of the Asustek Group, with the deal to go down as early as the end of this quarter or second-quarter 2009, depending on the source. |
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| Qimonda up in rankings, but future unclear - EE Times Amid a downturn in DRAMs, Samsung Electronics remains the top supplier in the arena, according to the new rankings from Gartner. In terms of sales, Samsung was the world's largest DRAM maker in the third quarter of 2008, followed by in order Hynix, Elpida, Qimonda, Micron, Nanya, Powerchip and ProMOS, according to the rankings. Germany's Qimonda AG gained share and took fourth place, surpassing Micron. But Qimonda's fortunes could be short lived.
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20 Nov 2008: | iPhone now the number one device worldwide, says AdMob (Nov 19) - Business Wire |
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| AMD ignores low-end netbook market to focus on notebooks (Nov 19) - CNNMoney |
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| Acer raises all prices by 25% (Nov 20) - ARNnet |
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| NTT DoCoMo, KTF to sell Google phone next year (Nov 19) - Reuters |
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| China Mobile and Nokia sign dual-band handsets contract (Nov 20) - China Tech News |
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| Sony presents the world's first LCD TV with motionflow 200Hz technology - Hardware Zone |
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| Natural-looking 3D images realized by new printing method - Techon |
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| New display device claims 'newspaper quality' - Techon |
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| How will Circuit City's bankruptcy impact TV, panel makers in Asia? - Techon |
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| Cree achieves 161 lumens per watt from a high-power LED - Company release |
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| NVIDIA, PS3 hardware in Top 500 Supercomputers list (Nov 18) - Ars Technica |
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| Asia markets follow US share drop (Nov 20) - BBC News Benchmark indexes in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea all dropped by about 5% in early trading after the Dow Jones share index in New York fell to its lowest level in five years, amid fears of a protracted global recession. |
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| Dell talks about 80 core processor (Nov 19) - The Inquirer At SC08 yesterday, Michael Dell, Dell・s CEO gave a presentation which included a slide showing an 80 core chip which should tip up sometime around 2010. |
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| Firms charge employees for Vista boot-up times (Nov 19) - The Inquirer Legal disputes are rising as employers refuse to pay employees for the 20 or so minutes it takes for their computers to boot-up or shut down each work day. |
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| Dresden's COMEDD is open - will Germany become an OLED production center? (Nov 20) - OLED-info.com |
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| BASF to temporarily shutter 80 plants as profits slide (Nov 19) - DowJones (via CNNMoney.com) German chemicals company BASF Wednesday said it will temporarily shutter 80 plants worldwide due to a "massive" demand decline in key industries, particularly the auto industry, as it warned of sliding profits. The move will affect 20,000 workers, including 5,000 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. |
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| Siimpel announces investment by DoCoMo Capital in support of its MEMS camera development - Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones) Siimpel announced today that it has completed an investment round in support of its groundbreaking MEMS technology and product development for mobile camera applications. DoCoMo Capital, the corporate venture arm of NTT DoCoMo, has joined Siimpel's existing strategic investors from the mobile market. |
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19 Nov 2008: | Judge dismisses computer maker's claims Apple is a monopoly (Nov 18) - CNNMoney U.S. District Judge William Alsup has handed Apple its latest victory against cloners that create and sell machines based on Apple's software.
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| Time to raise the gas tax - CNNMoney The idea of this tax isn't to inflict pain or get people out of cars - it's to make gasoline prices predictable so that automakers and consumers could make rational, long-term decisions rather than being subject to the rollercoaster ride we've taken in the past year. A high tax would hold down gas consumption, making it more difficult for oil-producing countries to gouge us again when the world economy recovers. Even though we'd be paying more than we're paying now, we'd be paying much less than the $4-plus we paid this summer. |
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| HP stands out (Nov 19) - Forbes HP expects earnings of 84 cents per share and adjusted earnings of $1.03 per share for the three months ended in October. This is slightly better than the $1.00 per share, excluding items, expected from analysts polled.... |
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| Gartner again lowers IC capex forecast for '09 - EE Times Market research group Gartner has lowered its forecast for semiconductor equipment manufacturing gear sales in 2009, just weeks after a previous downgrade. |
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| Infineon gains on report Qimonda may be sold to Micron (Nov 19) - Reuters In October, Qimonda sold its 35.6% interest in Korean chipmaker Inotera for US$400 million to Micron and is using those proceeds to restructure its core business.
German newspaper WirtschaftsWoche said that after Micron has completed the restructuring process it could acquire Qimonda with the purchasing price of the Korean chipmaker being credited against the purchase of Qimonda. |
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| DoCoMo to use free Google software for smart Phone, Nikkei says - Bloomberg Japan's largest mobile-phone operator and KT Freetel of South Korea will work together to develop a low-cost smart phone using free software from Google. |
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| ARC announces Virtual Bass Audio Enrichment Solution - Business Wire ARC International has introduced Virtual Bass audio enrichment technology that enables electronic companies to be more competitive and lower manufacturing costs while providing a more compelling multimedia experience to consumers.
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| Dell brings up the 80-core chip (Nov 18) - CNET |
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| Why Apple does not want Flash on the iPhone (Nov 19) - TG Daily |
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| Projector sales grow, pico and short-throw shine a bright light - Dealerscope |
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| Funai claims major leap in LCD display technology - Crunch Gear |
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| Smallest OLED pixel size created in France - Electronics Weekly |
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| First OLED panels to be manufactured in UK - Electronics Weekly |
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| Lumileds touts ：virtually unconstrained； power LED capacity - Compound Semiconductor |
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| NICT develops 3D color electronic holography for moving subjects - Techon |
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| Avago adds brighter cool-white and warm-white half-watt SMT LEDs for automotive and electronic sign applications - Semiconductor Today |
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| AMD, HP nab wins in supercomputer rankings (Nov 17) - Internet News |
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| Taiwan chip makers' debt problem (Nov 18) - Wall Street Journal ...In the most precarious situation is ProMOS, which ended the third quarter with about US$76 million in cash, a third of what it started the year with. Investors in a US$350 million convertible bond issued by ProMOS in 2007 will be able to start selling the bond back to the company in February, although it isn't due until 2012. The company has another US$225 million bond due in June 2010, according to Dealogic. |
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| ON Semiconductor, Microchip Technology end Atmel bid (Nov 18) - Bloomberg ...Microchip, which said it pulled out after On ended its pursuit of Atmel, may seek to team up with another company and make a new bid for Atmel, Suji De Silva, an analyst with Kaufman Bros., said in an interview.
Microchip is still an interested buyer, De Silva said. There could be another partner or they may go it alone. |
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| Green at the heart of Panasonic's bid for Sanyo - AP (via Google) |
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18 Nov 2008: | 2009 equipment sales could hit lows not seen since 2003, Gartner warns - Semiconductor Online Gartner today lowered its capital and equipment spending forecast for the second time in as many months, warning that the next year could see a capital spending decline of about 17% and capital equipment revenue decline of 18%. The revised forecast comes after Gartner in October suggested 2009 equipment demand would be slower than anticipated. |
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| Yahoo seen unlikely to sell Alibaba stake after Yang - Reuters Yahoo is unlikely to pull out of its $1 billion-plus China investment in Alibaba Group, even after the pending departure of CEO and strong China supporter Jerry Yang, analysts said on Tuesday. "No matter who becomes the new CEO of Yahoo, I don't think they would want to sell their investment in China," said Elinor Leung, an analyst at CLSA. "They're having a tough time in the U.S., and China is the growth potential for them."
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| ZTE expects China 3G tech adopted abroad by 2009 - Reuters ZTE, China's No. 2 telecoms equipment vendor, expects the country's high-speed third-generation technology to be adopted outside of China as soon as 2009, despite "flaws" that will need to be ironed out.
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| HP extends holiday time to cut costs (Nov 18) - Wall Street Journal |
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| Nvidia's Tesla deskside supercomputer returns as a PC (Nov 18) - TG Daily |
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| RIM president sees continuing smartphone market growth - CNNMoney Research In Motion (RIMM) President Mike Lazaridis Monday said he's still confident about growth in the smartphone market. Lazaridis said despite the economic crisis everybody needs communication devices. He added the smart phone market outpaces the overall mobile phone sector. |
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| Avago Technologies expands family of super half-watt surface-mount LEDs for sutomotive and slectronic sign applications - Business Wire |
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| Panasonic looks to double LED lighting sales, product lineup - Techon |
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| Sumitomo 3M to release ultra compact projector - Techon |
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| Fraunhofer opens center for organic materials and electronic cevices in Dresden - LEDs Magazine A new facility in Germany aims to develop a domestic manufacturing base for the production of organic LEDs and solar cells |
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| Over 32,000 LEDs will power 2009 Times Square New Year・s Eve Ball - LEDs Magazine |
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| Yahoo adrift after Yang announces resignation as CEO (Nov 17) - CNNMoney |
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| Transmeta bought for US$256M by video IC firm (Nov 17) - PC Magazine Privately held semiconductor company Novafora Inc agreed to buy microchip designer Transmeta Corp in a cash transaction worth $255.6 million. The expected offer price of between US$18.70-19.00 per share is at a 7-8% premium to Transmeta's closing price on November 17.
The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2009. Transmeta also entered into an agreement under which Advanced Micro Devices will transfer 700,000 of Transmeta's preferred stock to the company. |
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| IPS Alpha Technology opens subsidiary in Malaysia (Nov 18) - Techon |
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| Intersil to cut 9 percent of workforce - Business Week Semiconductor company Intersil said Wednesday it is cutting its global work force by 9% because of the current economic turmoil. "Unfortunately, we are entering a period of significant uncertainty and we feel the prudent approach is to respond quickly," said Dave Bell, chief executive, in a statement.
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| Obama says aiding economy trumps budget deficit - Reuters The United States government should not worry about deficits over the next two years while spending money to jumpstart the ailing economy, President-elect Barack Obama said in a television interview that aired on Sunday. "The consensus is this, that we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again, that we have to -- we're going to have to spend money now to stimulate the economy." |
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17 Nov 2008: | Liquavista looks for cash to aid LCD-replacement push - EE Times |
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| Saxony, Qimonda in talks about financial aid - Reuters Germany's state of Saxony and Infineon's loss-making unit Qimonda are in talks about a possible rescue plan, a spokesman for Saxony's Economics Ministry said on Monday. A company spokesman declined to comment on the report but said Qimonda and the state in eastern Germany were in constant contact. Qimonda runs a production plant in Dresden -- the capital of Saxony.
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| Nokia cuts handset sales forecast - ZDNet Asia The Finnish communications giant said it expects to ship 330 million handsets in the quarter. Consequently, Nokia's shipments forecast for the whole of 2008 dropped from 1.26 billion units to 1.24 billion. |
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| Sharp may cut LCD output - StraitsTimes (USE The Straits Times) |
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| Lightning review of Maxon Visimax portable projector - Gizmodo |
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| Digital photo frame gets the message - CNET |
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| Mitsubishi XD95U pico projector - Uber gizmo |
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| OECD projects protracted slowdown - BBC News The Paris-based body has forecast a fall in US economic activity of 0.9% in 2009, with the Euro area contracting by 0.5% and Japan by 0.1%. Economic growth in the 30 countries of the OECD is forecast to fall by 0.3%, before growing by 1.5% in 2010. |
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| PC sales expected to drop - Mercury News The latest data from IDC shows worldwide PC shipments into the United States will be 1.1% lower in the fourth quarter than they were for the same period a year ago. By comparison, PC shipments to the US increased nearly 11% during the fourth quarter of 2007. Citigroup also predicted that 2009 PC sales would be worse than it previously had thought. "It is clear that the PC industry is feeling the full impact of global economic recession." |
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| Japan's economy shrinks 0.4%, confirming recession (Nov 17) - Bloomberg |
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| LDK Solar inks deal with BP Solar (Nov 14) - Bizjournals.com |
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| Samsung launches a slew of iPhone wannabes (Nov 14) - Information Week |
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| Japan's Sharp to reduce LCD panel production: report (Nov 15) - AFP (via Google) |
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| Summit pledge to 'restore growth' - BBC News Key issues agreed by world leaders at this summit included: reform of international financial institutions, a global free-trade deal, improvements to financial market transparency, banks and financial institutions' incentives "prevent excessive risk taking," to draw up a list of financial institutions whose collapse would endanger the global economic system, strengthening countries' financial regulatory regimes and taking a "fresh look" at rules that govern market manipulation and fraud. |
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| Kyocera to build solar-cell factory to meet demand (Nov 14) - Bloomberg |
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| World leaders grapple with crisis - BBC News World leaders are to continue talks on measures to limit the current financial turmoil at a summit in Washington. They hope to agree on long-term reforms to cut the risk of further crises and a coordinated economic stimulus plan. China is likely to be key to any reforms agreed. With nearly $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and an economy that is still expanding, albeit at a slower pace, it is one of the few countries attending that has the cash to help countries in distress.
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16 Nov 2008: | US retail sales plunge record 2.8% in October (Nov 14) - Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones) Falling for a fourth straight month, US retail sales plunged a record 2.8% in October as sales of autos and gasoline plummeted, the Commerce Department estimated Friday. Excluding the 5.5% drop in auto purchases, retail sales fell a record 2.2%. |
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14 Nov 2008: | $100 laptop to be sold in Europe - BBC News The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation is planning to sell the devices via online store Amazon's European outlets from 17 November. When it goes on sale the XO laptop is expected to cost £268 (313 euros) and should be available in 27 EU nations as well as Switzerland, Russia and Turkey. The original idea for the OLPC was to create a small, powerful laptop for school children that would sell in the millions yet cost less than $100. |
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| Euro zone in recession as leaders head for summit - Reuters Recession has hit much of Europe, data showed on Friday, confirming a widespread economic downturn that world leaders hope to tackle at a weekend summit in Washington. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for more coordinated measures to spur economic growth, a policy area where there may be more consensus. |
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| Official: Weakness in China's economy worsening - CNN "The downturn trend in our economy is more obvious, especially since September. We hope a rapid downturn in growth will not occur," said Mu Hong, a deputy chairman of the nation's main planning agency. Beijing is moving quickly to launch the package and will distribute most of a planned 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in additional government spending within the next two weeks. The plan calls for higher spending on infrastructure and social programs in an effort to spur domestic consumer spending and reduce reliance on exports. |
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| Meltdown 101: The economy and alternative energy (Nov 13) - AP (via Google) |
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| LDK Solar boasts business, liquidity strong (Nov 13) - CNNMoney |
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| AMD gets serious about stream processing (Nov 13) - TG Daily |
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| Apple to develop its own search engine? (Nov 13) - TG Daily |
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| Major source of Internet spam pulled off the Web (Nov 14) - TG Daily |
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| OLPC extends Give-One-Get-One scheme to Europe (Nov 13) - The Inquirer |
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| AMD answers Intel's Atom with Conesus (Nov 13) - PC Magazine |
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| T-Mobile to sell picture frames with their own phone numbers - Beta News |
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| Front projector market tops 1.6 million shipments in Q3 - CEPro |
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| Mitsubishi Pico-portable XD95U is not pico projector for mobile devices - SlashGear Mitsubishi Pico-portable projector is not related to the palm-sized mobile Pico chipset projector built for handheld devices as we accustomed to, it is just another business class portable projector happens to carry the name of Pico. |
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| Chinese LCD TV makers to mark down - TradingMarkets |
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| Qualcomm halts UMB project (Nov 13) - Reuters Qualcomm has has stopped development of its next-generation, high-speed wireless technology Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) which was originally intended as an alternative to LTE and WiMAX 4G telecomunications standards. |
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